In the Forest of Metropoles - Karl-Markus Gauß

In the Forest of Metropoles

Buch | Hardcover
330 Seiten
2024
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80309-397-0 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
A chronicle of the diversity and wealth of cultures, predominantly from Eastern Europe, that have played a formative role in shaping contemporary Europe but now risk being forgotten.

A Herodotus of Mitteleuropa, cultural historian Karl-Markus Gauß is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the breadth and complexities of cultures and societies in Europe before, during, and after its decades of division in the twentieth century.

In this book, Gauß takes his readers on a thirteen-station journey across Europe. From Brussels to Istanbul and from Naples to Opole, Gauß weaves a Sebaldian web of connection and coincidence into a hybrid cultural history. Significantly, Gauß’s metropoles are not the well-trodden, thoroughly explored, and minutely documented megalopolises and cultural capitals that have been mythologized by writers great and small. There are no visits to Berlin, Paris, Rome, or Madrid, although he does make time for Vienna, where he looks not for imperial remnants, but for traces of genius unrecognized by most. Gauß’s lodestars are small but cosmopolitan towns on the periphery, such as Slaghenaufi, Vacaresti, Fontevraud, Dragatus, Vrzdenec, and Sélestat. In these far-flung towns, Gauß assembles a canon of overlooked humanists, expelled or extinguished by political and historical forces that swept the continent.

Karl-Markus Gauß is the foremost literary cartographer of a vanishing Europe. He has written more than two dozen books and numerous articles and essays for German, Swiss, and Austrian newspapers and magazines. Tess Lewis’s numerous translations from French and German include works by Philippe Jaccotte, Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Pascal Bruckner.

The Grimacer of Beaune
Liberation Boulevard: Belgrade
The Wide World of Dragatuš:
At Home with Oton Župancic
On Making an Appearance in Siena
The Dead Woman of Sélestat
The Rain of Brno: Ivan Blatný and the Moravian Portuguese Poet
Lost in Bucure?ti: Bulevardul Mihail Kogalniceanu
The Backdrops of Opole
The Republic of Piazza San Francesco
The Glass Sea: The Bells of Slaghenaufi
The Vandals of Fontevraud
The Dolls of Arnstadt
Europe–Africa: A Trip to Brussels
Translator's Note

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.12.2024
Reihe/Serie The German List
Übersetzer Tess Lewis
Verlagsort Greenford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80309-397-8 / 1803093978
ISBN-13 978-1-80309-397-0 / 9781803093970
Zustand Neuware
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